Scott Lowther wrote:

The notion that he would have
given the okay for a manned V-2 weapons system anytime prior to late 44
is laughable.

Of course that's just when the A9/A10 program gets restarted, so
maybe... the jet stream is going to have a deleterious affect on the
A9's range heading westward; and they still didn't have a clue about
reentry heating, although the W.W. II cutaway of the manned
rocket/ramjet driven A9 variant seems to suggest some sort of cooling of
the wing leading edge via the vehicle's propellants. The other thing
they never addressed was how to keep the A9 stable during the
exo-atmospheric part of the flight after motor burnout.



The A-9/A-10 would have simply been fired many times in hope of nailing
something interesting in Manhattan. They might have gotten away with it
had they kept France and control of the eastern Atlantic, as the launch
sites were in France


I thought they were supposed to be in Spain.

Pat